Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters · ca. 1612

Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Bouquet holder, jeweled feather
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Bouquet holder, blue stones, mother of pearl
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Bouquet holder
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bouquet holder, rhinestones, bone handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Bouquet holder, rose motif with yellow stones
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Ewer (Brocca)
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Bouquet holder, mirrors, blue stones, mother of pearl handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Bouquet holder, Greek key motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Bouquet holder, Greek key motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Bouquet holder, tripod with purple stones
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif
Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca.1871

Baptismal Font
Artist not stated in the record · 1137

Bouquet holder, feathery motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Plate
Stone, Coquerel et LeGros · early 19th century

Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 37 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 102717 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:14 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.